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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

A is for All Hallows' Eve - Skeleton Pirates - Small

These Blue Box are a bit of a mystery too, only because while I keep a good track of everything that comes-in, I seem to have completely lost track of these! I can't find them in any 'how they come in' shots published or not, but I don't remember them coming from a charity shop either, so while they may have been in the ex-storage stash, or a Sandown purchase which escaped the radar; if you recognise them as being from you, let me know for a full acknowledgement and thanks!

If they did come out of the 'storage sorts' the other week, they pre-date the issuing dates given elsewhere, by a certain self-abusing monkey-lizard, by some years, as they would have to be from 2010 or 2011 at the latest?


"Blue Box"; BBI; Blue Box; Blue- Box International; Halloween Novelty Toy; Halloween Playset; Halloween Toy Figures; Halloween Toys; Living Dead Toys; Novelty Figurins; Novelty Toy; Pirate Skeletons; Plastic Figurines; Skeleton Pirates; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Undead Figures; Vintage Plastic Soldiers; Vintage Toy Figures; Zombie Pirates;
Skeletons that are pirates, pirate-skeletons . . . which day to post them, are they firstly pirates and skeletons second, or primarily skeletons with a secondary pirate theme? It's not all having toy-fun, or baiting TJF here at Small Scale World Towers, some heavy editorial decision-making has to be undertaken on an almost daily, weekly, monthly . . . regularly occasional basis!

They came with five similar - but fully-fleshed - pirates, in blue,  I may (must?) have somewhere else! Bases only have a generic 'CHINA' mark.

"Blue Box"; BBI; Blue Box; Blue- Box International; Halloween Novelty Toy; Halloween Playset; Halloween Toy Figures; Halloween Toys; Living Dead Toys; Novelty Figurins; Novelty Toy; Pirate Skeletons; Plastic Figurines; Skeleton Pirates; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Undead Figures; Vintage Plastic Soldiers; Vintage Toy Figures; Zombie Pirates;
Comparison shot with some of the similar figures out there, the 1980/90's Egyptian skeleton sculpts are a little bigger than the others, but nothing paint won't hide! Sculpting style is quite like both Jaru's pirates and their version of the Egyptian skeletons?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I sent you these
Peter

Hugh Walter said...

Sorry Peter! I thought someone may have, were they in the last lot? I never did a 'group' photo!

H